OpenAxiom: The Open Scientific Computation Platform

OpenAxiom Documentation

OpenAxiom is a descendent of the AXIOM computer algebra system as described by Richard Jenks and Robert Sutor in AXIOM: The Scientific Computation System. That book is the base reference document for OpenAxiom.

Interactive Session

Most uses of OpenAxiom is done through an interactive session. Just start it with the command open-axiom at the shell prompt.

Interpretation in batch mode

The interpreter can be invoked in batch mode in two ways

on command line as
```
open-axiom --script myfile.input
       
```
where myfile.input contains the script to be executed. This method works on all platforms supported by OpenAxiom.
or from a .input script where the very first line reads
```
     #!/usr/bin/open-axiom --script
         
```
just like for most scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Ruby. If your system does not support this way of invoking scripts then you would have to resort to the first method.

The OpenAxiom compiler

OpenAxiom comes with a compiler that can be invoked either in an interactive session, or in batch mode. In batch mode, the compiler is invoked as

     open-axiom --compiler myfile.spad

where myfile.spad contains library codes.